Wednesday, August 15, 2018

POTUS pulls Brennan's security clearance

President Trump has revoked former CIA director John Brennan's security clearance on Wednesday. What took so long?

This is the first decision from a review of access for several top Obama administration intelligence and law enforcement officials.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders read a statement on behalf of President Trump at the start of the press briefing. She read that Brennan "has a history that calls his credibility into question."

The statement said that Brennan was "leveraging" his clearance to make "wild outbursts" and claims against the present administration.

"The president has a constitutional responsibility to protect classified information and who has access to it, and that's what he's doing is fulfilling that responsibility in this action," Sanders said.

The White House is also looking into the security clearances of other former officials and Trump critics, including former FBI director James "Lordy" Comey; former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe; former director of national intelligence James "Not Wittingly" Clapper; and former CIA director Michael Hayden.

The statement also mentioned Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, former FBI agent Peter Strzok, and former FBI special counsel Lisa Page [the married woman Strzok was having an extra-marital affair with].

Sanders said, "This is specific to Mr. Brennan and the others are currently under review."

And if they're allowed to keep their clearances, Trump will be making a yooge mistake.

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